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Innovation Watch
185 - 911 Yates Street, Box 402, Victoria, B.C., Canada V8V 4Y9
Phone: (800) 867-3316
Fax: (800) 867-3316
Email: dforrest@innovationwatch.com
Website: Innovation Watch

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I am particularly interested in the history of innovation, and emerging trends. I publish Innovation Watch, a website on change, innovation, and the future. The Innovation Watch newsletter is now distributed to readers in more than 40 countries, who have a personal or professional interest in change.
      I also work as a management consultant and business strategist, helping clients to deal with the challenges and opportunities of change. In this work, I've found exposure to systems thinking in university to be especially powerful and relevant. Since the mid-1980s, I've explored parallels between ecology and the economy, and coined the term "enterprise ecology" in 1988 to describe the application of ecological principles to competition, innovation and strategy in business.

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Topics of Current Interest
  • Business trends
  • Science and technology trends
  • Social trends
  • Environmental issues
  • Accelerating change and the emerging future
Selected Periodical Credits
  • "The wide world of GIS," Uniforum Monthly, 1992.
  • "Seeing data in new ways," Computerworld, July 1992.
  • "Cyber-Geography: Mapping the Virtual World," Innovation Watch, July 2000. The emerging terrain of cyberspace, and the maps that help us to visualize this virtual world.
  • "Crazy Computing," Innovation Watch, Feb. 2001. The paradoxical world of quantum mechanics and some of its startling future applications.
  • "Room at the Bottom," Innovation Watch, Mar. 2001.
  • "Generation Hexed," Innovation Watch, July 2001. A look at some of the uncanny parallels between the dot-com generational experiment and its hippy predecessor, Haight Ashbury's Summer of Love.
  • "Choices," Innovation Watch, Sept. 2001. A personal search for answers after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in September 2001.
  • "The Edge of Chaos," Innovation Watch, Oct. 2001. The nature of conflict, and new insights provided by chaos theory and complex systems science.
Book Credits
  • "Implementing a Provincial Land Information Network," in Networking Spatial Information Systems, P.W. Newton, P.R. Zwart and M.E. Cavill, eds., John Wiley & Sons, 1992.
  • "Canada Today," in The History of Geographic Information Systems: Perspectives from the Pioneers, Timothy W. Foresman, ed., Prentice Hall, 1998.
  • Coauthor - The Information Paradox: Realizing the Business Benefits of Information Technology, John Thorp, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1998.
Related Areas of Expertise
~ Editing ~ Lecturing/Public Speaking ~ Research ~ Online publishing ~
Staff/Contract Experience
  • Columnist, Computing Canada, 1989-1993.
  • Columnist and Contributing Editor, GIS World, 1990-1996.
  • Editor, GIS World Report/Canada, 1994-1996.
Qualifications
  • B.A. (Geography), University of Winnipeg, 1982.
  • B.Sc. (Biology), University of Winnipeg, 1982.
  • Management consultant, former Fujitsu Consulting Fellow and member of Fujitsu's Global Strategic Consulting Council; principal in Indynamics Consulting.
  • Member, Alliance for Capitalizing on Change.
  • Advisory Board Member, Acceleration Studies Foundation.
  • Publisher, Innovation Watch website.
Expertise by Subject
~ Business/Finance ~ Environment/Nature ~ Internet ~ Science ~ Social Issues ~ Technology ~ Futures (trends and foresight) ~
Expertise by Type of Writing
~ Feature Articles ~ Interviews/Profiles ~ Reviews ~ Science Writing ~

David Forrest
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